Voice AI's real battleground: latency may matter as much as intelligence
VraserX · x · 2026-09-17
The author argues that after years of obsessing over benchmark scores, latency and responsiveness will matter almost as much as intelligence for voice AI — an assistant that understands you while you're still speaking changes the whole experience. They also note that Confucius R2T2 is open source and are curious what people will build with it.
Related event: NetEase Youdao Open-Sources Streaming ASR Model Confucius4-R2T2(21 posts)→
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